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 HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU! The leaves are falling, the squirrels are leaping from tree to tree.  You have to find your hat and gloves that you put away last fall. The smell of cinnamon and apple cider filling the houses and decorations line the halls. We all give thanks as we remember our blessings, and pray for another year to be good and peaceful.  Everyone is planning thanksgiving dinner with Turkey and trimmings.  Its a lovely time of year to remember family and friends all around the world. Lift a glass of cider for 2024.

There comes a time when I just have to have a yummy chocolate brownie with nuts in it.  Some people don't like nuts in them, like my son for example, and some people don't want raisins in the cinnamon rolls either -- but I have to have them or I don't really want to eat the cinnamon roll.  Picky huh? So, anyway back to my kitchen -- I don't really enjoy being in the kitchen I would rather be oil painting instead unless it is that I have an urge to make a dessert which I do enjoy doing.  Apple Pie is my signature dish well known in my family for being the best apple pie you can find in the West.   Its very simple really -- and I love to make them. They are not hard to make -- if you keep in mind that the trick is keeping everything very cold even your hands (I run them under the cold water faucet if they get warm).  First I get the flour pour that into the food processor, then cut up very cold butter and add that into the flour with a pinch of salt.  W...